365 Days/365 Plays
by Suzan-Lori Parks

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A collection of Greater Boston theatre companies and universities will each put their own stamp on Parks' plays this coming spring and fall when they participate in the national 365 Days/365 Plays initiative. Boston companies will tackle two more sets of consecutive weeks in the spring and the fall, resulting in mini-festivals that celebrate Parks' efforts. Companies included: Company One, The Lyric Stage Company, New Repertory Theatre, The Nora Theatre, and Zeitgeist Stage, among others. Please contact co-Boston area Hub Partners bevinogara@newrep.org or rebecca_curtiss@lyricstage.com with questions about regional participation.

Suzan-Lori Parks is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist whose plays include Topdog/Underdog (Public Theater), Fucking A (Public Theater), Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom (1990 Obie Award for Best New American Play), The American Play (Public Theater), Venus (Public Theater, 1996 Obie Award), The Death Of The Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, and In The Blood (Public Theater, 2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist), among others. Her work is the subject of the PBS Film The Topdog/Underdog Diaries. Her work for film and television includes Girl 6 (directed by Spike Lee) and the adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, for Oprah Winfrey Presents. Her first novel, Getting Mother's Body, is published by Random House. She is currently writing the book for the Ray Charles musical (for the film producers of Ray). A recipient of a MacArthur Foundaton "Genius" Award, Parks received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Topdog/Underdog.